The evolution of senescence through decelerating selection for system reliability

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 974-982

  Laird, R A ^a   Sherratt, T N ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ageing; Mutation selection balance; Quasispecies; Redundancy; Reliability; Replicator dynamics; Senescence

Indexed keywords

AGING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MUTATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SENESCENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE DUPLICATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 65249157145     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01709.x     Document Type: Article

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